The first table below looks at the demand for OLE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OLE over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Manchester region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing OLE 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.107% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.338% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £340 £425
% change year-on-year
- -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.00 -
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
296 380 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 31.73% 29.41% 27.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 219 155
Average daily rate £295 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £235 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 12
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.57% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
OLE
North West

OLE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OLE across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Manchester OLE Jobs Demand Trend

OLE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OLE across the Manchester region.

Manchester OLE Daily Rate Trend

OLE
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing OLE also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited OLE.

1 3 (75.00%) Crystal Reports
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) SAP BW
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (75.00%) SAP BI
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Korn
2 2 (50.00%) Bourne shell
2 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (50.00%) Demand Management
2 2 (50.00%) Logistics
2 2 (50.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VBA
3 1 (25.00%) MS Office
3 1 (25.00%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (25.00%) COM
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft

OLE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing OLE also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited OLE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) COM
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Crystal Reports
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) SAP BW
1 3 (75.00%) SAP BI
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) VBA Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SAP BW Architect
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Demand Management
2 2 (50.00%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) Korn
2 2 (50.00%) Bourne shell
2 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (50.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft